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‘The Bug Club’ is a indie rock band from Caldicot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - They will be at Empty Bottle on Tuesday night! Tuesday June 17, 9pm Bug Club The Empty Bottle 1035 North Western Avenue Chicago www.ticketweb.com/event/the-bu...

Given how sparse the population is in this area, I can’t see a reasonable argument for why the Republic of Lakotah should not exist.

All I need is a power converter from UK to USA, and a to work out which TV this will work with in the US..

Returned to Chicago to nice things that had arrived in the post.

A great video created by staff at AB Electronics to show the range of products that were hand assembled at their factory in Abercarn, Wales in 1985. It features the assembly of BBC, Acorn, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers. youtu.be/IJSv6Hu03LU?...

Decent riverside spot for a picnic. Ogmore Castle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Glynneath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Max Boyce, Ruth Madoc, and of course Michael Myers.

Max Boyce Statue in Glynneath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

South Wales Aviation Museum. www.southwalesaviationmuseum.com

June 13, 1994 - Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 made it the the semi-final of the Subbuteo World Championships in Chicago. After losing to Belgium in the semi-final, Wales won the 3-4th place play off match against Greece. youtu.be/eBJs80toLSc?...

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Highly recommended - Copper Jack Tawe River Cruises in Swansea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.scbt.org.uk

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A tad disappointed that I can’t find a single cinema in Wales screening any ‘Friday 13th’ flicks tomorrow ☹️

A trip to “The Village”.

An Atlas A400 over Carn Goedog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

An Atlas A400 over Carn Goedog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Motel Welsh, Wall, South Dakota.

Cefneithin, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Chepstow Castle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Penblwydd Hapus! Born on June 8, 1867, the great Welsh-American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A spot of shopping at Mutant Caterpillar Games in Aberystwyth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 An absolute treasure trove of reconditioned retro computers and games. www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/ #Retro #Spectrum #Sinclair

#otd On this day in 1905 (120 years ago) - Donald Watts Davies, inventor of 'packet switching', high-speed routers, layered communication protocols... was born. Wales is BIG enough, STRONG enough, WISE enough... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...

Penblwydd Hapus to a Welsh legend! Tom Jones turns 85 today! From 13 years ago at Hideout Inn block party in Chicago - fellow Welsh legend Jon Langford, Sally Timms, and the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus sing “Tom Jones Levitation”.

Penblwydd Hapus to a Welsh legend! 85 today! I remember being in the Commodore cinema in Aberystwyth cracking up that Tom Jones was one of the hero’s saving the world in ‘Mars Attacks’. youtu.be/9z1wX69Swqk